Fig. 2

Example of repeated exercise task exposure affecting the pacing behaviour of novice adult exercisers. Grey dotted: exercisers initially exerting not enough effort, grey striped: exercisers initially exerting too much effort, black bold solid: more even pacing behaviour. Arrows: change with increased exercise task experience. The horizontal solid line represents the mean power output/velocity. This example is based on the collective results of included studies that reported on the change in pacing behaviour resulting from repeatedly exposing adult novices to the same exercise task (> 120 s)